About the university
Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance is a full-time general higher education institution offering distinctive accounting and finance programs. It was formed in June — by amalgamating Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce and Shanghai Finance University. The name "Lixin" comes from a saying from the Analects of Confucius, "Without credibility, you won’t have a place in the world." The history of the University can be traced back to —, when Pan Xulun, a famous educator and accountant honored as the “Father of Modern Accounting in China” founded Lixin Accounting School. In —, it was qualified for conferring the professional master's degree in auditing. Running for over 90 years, it has been hailed as one of the birthplaces of modern accounting education in China and the cradle of future financiers. In December —, SLU was named a pilot university for the development of high-quality application-oriented universities in Shanghai.
The University has three campuses in Pudong, Songjiang and Xuhui respectively, covering an area of more than — mu (about — m2). In December —, SLU’s Pudong new campus came into construction. There are nearly — full-time students in the University. The students have good prospects of employment, with the employment rate of graduate students being 100%, and that of undergraduates over 98%, and thus was selected as a “National Model University for Graduate Employability” by the Ministry of Education. In September —, we witnessed the inauguration of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance Affiliated School.
The University remains committed to the fundamental task of educating integrity in students and helping them become high-quality application-oriented talents with “integrity, practical ability, creativity and an international vision”. It has become a standing executive member of China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association (CIUR), a standing executive member of China University-Enterprise Collaboration Innovation Alliance and one of the first batch of "integrated pilot universities" in Shanghai curriculum ideological and political education reform. In November —, the University was approved in the examination and evaluation of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education.
The University views human resources as the foremost resources and constantly improves its faculty. There are more than — faculty members, including more than — full-time teaching staff. More than 80 of the full-time teaching staff obtain senior titles and more than 340 deputy senior titles. More than 600 teaching staff have a doctorate. It has a group of experts and scholars who have been selected into national and provincial-level talent programs and are academically influential in their professional fields.
The University has been improving itself through disciplinary development. With economics and management as the main subjects, applied economics, business administration and statistics as focuses, and finance and accounting at core, it promotes interdisciplinary integration and collaboration and coordinates the development of multiple subjects in the disciplines of economics, management, science, law and arts. Its business administration is listed as a Class I Plateau Discipline in Shanghai Universities, and applied economics as a Class II Plateau Discipline in Shanghai universities. Its open economy and trade is a key discipline in Shanghai. The Journal of Accounting and Economics published and publicly distributed by the University was qualified as a CSSCI source journal.
The University offers distinctive programs for different majors and there are 15 schools. In its 39 undergraduate programs, two are state-level characteristic disciplines, namely Accounting and Finance. It has a national accounting professional training model innovation experimental area, four national first-class undergraduate programs, Accounting, Auditing, Finance and International Economics and trade, two Shanghai municipal first-class undergraduate programs, namely Taxation and Applied Statistics, and three pilot undergraduate programs for general program reform in Shanghai, namely finance, taxation and cameralistics.13 undergraduate programs including marketing, international economics and trade are municipal pilot application-oriented undergraduate programs in Shanghai. In June —, the University was among the first to be selected for the “First-Class Undergraduate Education Initiative of Shanghai Colleges and Universities”. In April —, it was among the first to be selected for the “First-class Graduate Education Initiative of Shanghai Colleges and Universities”.